Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-02-05
LEONE LOCAL CHAT.

Inquire Vi OOi. w ara LamOn, formerly
of Martinsburg, West Va, and who
during the war was Marshal of tn,
District, and Lincoln's confidential
friend and biographer, is once more
familiar about the hotels of Washing
ton. There is no more popular mar
among Washington people than Col
Lamon, and many social demands
are being made upon MIN. He is
said to be very wealthy now, and re-
ceives enormous fees for his legal
services. Within the past two OIL
three months the Colonel received
the largest legal fee ever paid to an
American lawyer. 1t was the sum eff
$3.50, 900, and was for service that
almost any ordinary lawyer could
have performed, The great sum in
volved in the matter at issue, justified
the payment of the fee, however,
Very little mention has been made
of Col. Lamon for three or four years,
and the public was beginning to lose
sight of him. Now that his name
has again been brought into promi-
nence through the medium of big
legal fee, the newspapers are treating
him with great consideration, and he
is receiving an immense amount of
free advertising"
In connection with the above free
advertising" given Col. Lamon by
this fertile correspondent. reference
is made to some far fetched airy
"reminiscences T" that reminisce into
a Washington grade of inocuous
desuetude. The especial Correspon-
dent" gives no authority for these
"reminiscences, nor the name of the
Washington or estate papers " in
which they should have appeared
They need no denial, from the simple
fact that they never existed. Be-
tween the late Hon. G.. J. Faulkner
and Col. Lamon there was always the
most cordial intercourse; socially,
legally and politically their relations
were not. only pleasant, but friendly
to degree that would have hardly
seemed possible during time when
sectional and political differences were
strong as extremes could make them.
The same pleasant intercourse and
friendship existed between him, Hon.
E. Boyd Faulkner and Judge Faulk-
ner. Anyother statement of con-
trary condition of affairs belongs to
West Va. sensational STORIES, and
halls from the same locality. My
personal recollections of Col. Lamon
are of a pleasant nature. He had a
pocketbook as generous as his heart,
and never failed to visit him when
l was on a soliciting committee, a
mite society, fair, or any of the
hundred charitable affairs this town
struggled with thro' the seventies
Genial, social, courteous, the very
soul of good humor, friends by the
score, enemies,-none. He turned
Westward with the course of Empire,
located in that Mecca of the Western
hills, Denver. How well he has sue
ceeded there is apparent. His Life
of Lincoln would alone have served
to make him famous, but the friends
who recall and remember his busy
life, and his brilliant attainments
know that his future will be like his
past, full of action and success.
The popular Waite Comedy Com
pany played to overlooking houses.
They are favorites here, and deserve
to be at any place. Their giving
away of gifts was a special feature
that the play-going people appreciat-
ed.
Every once in a while there is some
misunderstanding about the checks
on reserved seats and somebody feels
like striking out from the shoulder,
like the subscriber y who sends me
the following:
Leone,-Please insert the follow
ing: Wanted, 5000 gentlemen with
ladies to buy reserved seats at the
usual place and go to the Opera House
and after being led around twice by
the whole corpse the pun is his, of
officials are unable to locate the seats
bought and paid for, would suggest
that demand money at the entrance
and make it thoughtful subject for
reserved seat purchasers in the sweet
bye and bye"
Mistakes such as are complained of
are doubtless due to the double sale
of seats over two diagrams, as has
sometimes been done. Considering
the number of people seated, such
mistakes are rare, and the ushers
employed are courteous and painstak-
ing to degree that has not hereto
fore been known in this town.
LEFT OvER.-Some people, like
pictures, are filter for corner than a
full light.
Head and heart seldom pull the
same way, from a material point of
view; head is always the more profit
able of the two, men generally give
it the right of way, women-don't.
One man makes up his accounts
from his wants, another from his
assets.
When the idea of durability leaves
the mind of the workman, the work
| begins to suffer.
Falsehood may have thick crust,
but in course of time truth will find
place to break through.
| A book is the best companion, es-